A Friday evening statement from the White House said, "Today, President Donald J. Trump granted a Presidential pardon to Joe Arpaio, former Sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona".

"Donald Trump is an absolute coward for pardoning a man who engaged in racist police practices", said Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz. This would have involved an FBI background investigation on Arpaio and could have taken months or even years.

Trump's Spectacular Friday Night News Dump began a couple hours earlier when Trump signed an executive memo empowering the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security to implement his ban on transgender people from serving in the military.

"I said pardon or no pardon, I will be with him to the end", Arpaio said of Trump.

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He had admitted to inadvertently disobeying the court order but said his behaviour did not meet a criminal standard.

"I won't do it tonight because I don't want to cause any controversy; is that OK?" "These low appeals to hatred and un-American values, consistent with Trump's defense of white supremacists and neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, confirm that his chaotic presidency is propped up by a malignant ideology of hate, racism, religious intolerance and homo- and transphobia".

Arpaio tweeted that he was "incredibly grateful" to Trump, and suggested his conviction was "a political witch hunt by holdovers in the Obama justice department!"

This is Trump's first pardon in office, and it is unusual for a President to issue pardons - especially ones of such high profile - so soon in his first term.

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The nonprofit - which has hosted the annual event at Mar-a-Lago for at least the past decade - has not yet selected another venue. The managing director of Trump's properties in Florida, Bernd Lembcke, did not respond to a phone call seeking comment, either.

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